||Short Article|| The strength to refuse honour to the cultural idols of our day will come from having a clear vision of a bigger God.
Author: Chris Northcott
I would like to promote the use of ‘real’ (i.e. paper) Bibles for personal reading.
||Pastoral Passage|| Jesus presents wise living in a new light – instead of measuring wisdom by success in everyday life, it is measured by the practise of his word.
||Pastoral Passage|| Being a ‘scribe of the Kingdom’ today does not need to be limited to the professional scholars and Bible teachers
Some churches sing the psalms during their time of worship.
||Book Summary|| This short book describes changes to the institution of marriage in New Zealand in 1850, 1950, and the early 2000s, and investigates how legislation has accelerated these changes.
||Pastoral Passage|| In the fourth and final scenario of Jesus’ parable of the sower we come to the ideal outcome for someone hearing the message of the kingdom.
||Pastoral Passage|| Spot your weeds, and pull them out.
On what do we base our confidence of persevering in the faith?
||Pastoral Passage|| It is one thing to reject Jesus because one dislikes him, but quite another to base that decision on a misunderstanding of him.
Chris Northcott 